Chelsea's review
How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
by Kara Jesella (Goodreads author!), Marisa Meltzer
Chelsea's review
How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time by Kara Jesella (Goodreads author!), Marisa Meltzer
Chelsea's review
rating:
I did not learn anything from this book. Reading a book written by people who read the same magazine as you when you were little is, well, not pointless, but not real point-ful either.
I am just freaked out by nostalgia and attempts to justify it. Yes, this magazine did actually change my life, and I can see how someone who became a writer would want to document that fact. And yes I was really excited to get it in the mail from Amanda. And yes I probably am a writer (to the extent that I am... what, a blog is writing?) because of this magazine. But the book is a show, not a tell. And it's written by someone just like me, which is the worst thing I could force myself to read! (Is this true? Did I crave this when I was young?)It's like listening to a Weezer tribute album by bands with names like Cio Cio San. Empowerment is great in general but it certainly leads to a glut!
I am just freaked out by nostalgia and attempts to justify it. Yes, this magazine did actually change my life, and I can see how someone who became a writer would want to document that fact. And yes I was really excited to get it in the mail from Amanda. And yes I probably am a writer (to the extent that I am... what, a blog is writing?) because of this magazine. But the book is a show, not a tell. And it's written by someone just like me, which is the worst thing I could force myself to read! (Is this true? Did I crave this when I was young?)It's like listening to a Weezer tribute album by bands with names like Cio Cio San. Empowerment is great in general but it certainly leads to a glut!
